Press Releases

RELEASE: September 12, 2017
AUSTIN, Texas—Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the state’s leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance, today announced a grant of $10 million to policyholders affected by Hurricane Harvey. The grant program was unanimously approved by the comp... Read More

Peter Golden, Managing Associate Partner for Mullen & Filippi’s Redding, California office, has decided to move south, and will now be the Managing Associate Partner for our San Diego office.
With this move, Pete can claim that his work experience has covered the entire West Coast of the Unit... Read More

Costa Mesa, CA September 5, 2017: The National Council of Self-Insurers has named Ms. Jill Dulich as their Interim Executive Director. Effective September 1, 2017, Ms. Dulich assumed the role of Interim Executive Director and will lead NCSI as it undergoes a transformation to rebrand the organizatio... Read More

We are very pleased to announce that our long time attorney, Jeffry Diamond in our Fresno office, has achieved the honor of being appointed a Workers’ Compensation Administrative Judge by the State Division of Industrial Accidents, WCAB at their very busy Fresno district office. We are s... Read More

myMatrixx, a Tampa-based workers’ compensation pharmacy benefit management (PBM) firm, was recently purchased by Express Scripts, #22 on the Fortune 500 list.
Express Scripts, headquartered in St. Louis, is the nation’s largest PBM and processes more than 1 billion prescript... Read More

NEW YORK, August 16, 2017 – Inc. magazine today ranked Adva-Net Number 13 on its 36th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. In addition, Adva-Net was ranked Number 1 in the Health Sector. The list represents a unique look at the m... Read More

An investigation conducted by the Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation’s Enforcement Division has led to the arrest of Laura A. Ditchkoff. According to Enforcement Division Director Stan BeXley, Laura A. Ditchkoff, age 42 and a resident of Alma, Georgia, was arrested on Monday,... Read More

Sacramento, Ca (August 1, 2017) --The Law Office of Richard Montarbo (MontarboLaw.com) announced that the CompCalc for Windows 10 users will be available for FREE TRIAL DOWNLOAD at the Windows Store beginning August 1, 2017. The CompCalc Windows rounds out the CompCalc family of California Workers&r... Read More

Today's Round Up

03/20/2018 |
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The North Carolina Department of Insurance has hired 15 new agents to fight a rising tide of insurance fraud.
Mike Causey
The state's General Assembly last year appropriated $2.4 million to hire the agents after fraud arrests jumped to 334 in 2017, a 60% increase from the previous year, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey said in news release. Each month, the department receives 400 to 500 fraud complaints, Causey said.
The new agents were trained at the department's anti-fraud academy and include a crime analyst, forensic accountant, attorneys and special agents.
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03/19/2018 |
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Texas could make better use of stop-work orders to crack down on employers who misclassify workers as contractors to avoid paying workers' compensation, a Washington, D.C., think tank said this week.
Andrew Elmore
The Migration Policy Institute, which studies migration worldwide, on Thursday released a study that shows immigrants are twice as likely as native-born workers to be employed in industries in which labor violations are widespread.
Misclassifying workers as independent contractors is common in low-wage businesses, the report said.
Some states, including Texas, are not ...
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